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56Bergmann And Wittgenstein On GeneralityMetaphysica 7 (1): 121-145. 2006.General statements have been the chief subject matter of logic since Aristotle’s syllogistic. They have also been a fundamental concern of metaphysics, though only since Frege invented modern quantification theory. Indeed, logicians and even metaphysicians seldom ask what, if anything, general statements correspond to in the world. But Frege and Russell did, and the question became a major theme in Wittgenstein’s early (pre-1929) and Gustav Bergmann’s later (post- 1959) works. All four were awar…Read more
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4BibliographyIn Anthropocentrism in Philosophy: Realism, Antirealism, Semirealism, De Gruyter. pp. 238-243. 2015.
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25Anthropocentrism in Philosophy: Realism, Antirealism, SemirealismDe Gruyter. 2015.Anthropocentrism in philosophy is deeply paradoxical. Ethics investigates the human good, epistemology investigates human knowledge, and antirealist metaphysics holds that the world depends on our cognitive capacities. But humans good and knowledge, including their language and concepts, are empirical matters, whereas philosophers do not engage in empirical research. And humans are inhabitants, not 'makers', of the world. Nevertheless, all three can be drastically reinterpreted as making no refe…Read more
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34Being Qua Being: A Theory of Identity, Existence, and PredicationIndiana University Press. 1979.Are there nonexistent things? What is the nature of informative identity statements? Are the notions of essential property and of essence intelligible, and, if so, how are they to be understood? Are individual things material substances or clusters of qualities? Can the account of the unity of a complex entity avoid vicious infinite regresses? These questions have attracted widespread attention among philosophers recently, as evidenced by a proliferation of articles in the leading philosophical …Read more
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